Toy panoramic car



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G. H. IRELAND. TOY PANQRAMIG GAR.

Patented July 12,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

GEORGE H. IRELAND, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOY PANORAM IC CAR.

. SPECIFICATION formIng part of Letters Patent No. 244,132, dated July 12, 1881.

Application filed May 19, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, GEORGE H. IRELAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sprin gfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Toy Panoramic Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a toy car having a two sided show curtain standing vertically therein, and adapted to be drawn from end to end of the car, the object being to provide a representation of a show or exhibition car in which said curtain is moved, like the curtain of a panorama, slowly by an opening in each side of the car, said curtain having represented upon one side thereof pictures of animals and upon the other fishes, and altogether forming a toy menagerie and aquarium car.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of a toy car constructed according to my invention, having the top thereof partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, showing the managerie side of the car. Fig. 3 is a like view, showing the aquarium side. Fig.4 is a plan view of the top of the car, partly in section and Fig. 5 is an end elevation.

In the drawings, A is the car. set in one side of the car. t'is glass set in the opposite side thereof. d d are vertical curtainrollers, one set in each end of the car A, as shown. (I d are curtain guide-rollers set by the side of rollers d d. 0 is acrank fitting into the ends of rollers d d. e is a curtain whose ends are attached to rollers d d.

I construct the car A in the form shown and mount it upon wheels in the usual manner. One side of the car is open for most of its length, as in Fig. 2, and upon this side are placed the vertical bars b to represent a menagerie-cage. Back of said bars is a vacant space between said bars and the curtain e, as seen most clearly in Fig. 4. On the opposite side of the car A to that in which the bars I; are set is fixed a glass plate, t, and directly back of said plate 41 is set a wall, The ends of the carA are partially partitioned off by the narrow walls a: or, which form the ends of said space back of the bars b. At each end of the car A are set two vertical rollers, d d, side by side, and of about equal diamater, and the ends I) are bars (N0 model.)

of said rollers have their hearings in the bottom and top of the car, andtwo of said four rollers, d cl, have a deep oblong slot formed in one end to receive one end of a crank, c, by which they can be revolved. A curtain, c, of about the width of the side of the car A, has its ends attached to the rollers d 01, one end being first attached to one of said rollers, when the latter is revolved to wind nearly all of said apron upon it. The free end of said apron is then led from said roller between the glass plate '5 and the wall 6 Fig. 4, thence around one of the guide-rollers d at the opposite end of car A, and thence back to the end of said car from whence it started, around another of the guiderollers d, and thence in a line at the rear of the space between bars b to the second roller, 01, at the opposite end from whence it started, to which the unattached end of said curtain is secured. Said curtain is ornamented on one side with pictures of animals such as are usually seen in a nienegarie, and upon the other with pictures of fishes and other creatures usually found in an aquarium.

From the above description of the construction of the car A, with its rollers 02 and d, and the manner of disposing of the curtain 6 around said rollers, it will readily be seen, by applying the crank c to one of rollers 61 and revolving it to wind said curtain upon it, drawing it oft from the like roller at the opposite end of the car, that said curtain is drawn along directly behind the glass plate t, showing through said plate the pictures of fishes, 850., upon one side of said curtain, as represented in Fig. 3, and that at the same time the pictures representing the animals of a menagerie upon the opposite side of said curtain are being exposed to view behind the bars b on the opposite side of car A. Thus while either one of rollers d is being turned to wind the curtain upon it the abovedescribed exhibition of animals and fishes is being made simultaneously on the two sides of the car.

Other illustrations than those above described maybe drawn upon the curtain c, which Will amuse and instruct children, and the car may be constructed with a glass plate, 0, set in each side, or bars I) may be set in both sides thereof, or the sides may be left open, such modifications being entirely consistent with the chief feature of my invention, which consists, essenexhibition-curtain e mounted therein upon suit- 10 tially, in the car A, having an exhibition-curable rollers to draw it from end to end of said tain, 6, adapted to be drawn from end to end car, substantially as and for the purpose set of said car by winding it upon rollers as shown, forth. 5 and to have both sides of it freely exposed to view through the sides of said car.

What I claim as my invention is- Witnesses: A toy show-ear consisting of the car A, open H. A. ()HAPIN, or partially open on its sides, and having the J .D. GARFIELD.

GEORGE H. IRELAND. 

